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A New Record of Aspergillus vadensis (Ascomycota) Isolated from Soil in Yunnan Province, China

Sadia Nadir^1,2,3, Sehroon Khan¹, Dhanushka N. Wanasinghe^1,2, Saowaluck Tibpromma^1,2, Shahid Iqbal^1,2, Jianchu Xu^1,2,*, Peter Mortimer^1,2,*

1 CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, 650201, China
2 Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming, 654400, China
3 Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology, Bannu, 28100, Pakistan

* Corresponding Authors: Jianchu Xu. Email: ; Peter Mortimer. Email:

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2021, 90(3), 1031-1039. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2021.012075

Received 13 June 2020; Accepted 12 October 2020; Issue published 30 March 2021

Abstract

During a survey of soil fungi in Yunnan Province, several isolates of Aspergillus were obtained. Based on morphology and molecular analyses of internal transcribed spacer regions and intervening 5.8S nrRNA gene (ITS), β-tubulin and calmodulin (CaM) genes sequences, two isolates were identified as Aspergillus vadensis (section Nigri). A phylogenetic tree, detailed descriptions, illustrations and scanned electron microscopy morphology are provided for the new isolates. This is the first record of A. vadensis from China.

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